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Vincent Whelan

Conor McGregor's strange nighttime training video where he sprints up road while shouting

Conor McGregor often shares workout clips with his social media followers but this was one of the more unorthodox ones.

Still holidaying in Majorca where it's around 30° each day, he opted to wait until the temperature cooled down before getting some cardio work in.

That's all well and good but him choosing to train by running up an empty road added to the oddity of it all.

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He took off looking fairly nimble on his feet (Instagram)
And disappeared into the distance (Instagram)

He looked fleet enough as fiancée Dee Devlin was behind the camera cheering him on.

Before the second sprint he let out a few shouts as he got himself hyped up (Instagram)

In a follow-up post he then waxed lyrical about the benefits of incline training.

He wrote: "Ask yourself this...Why aren't you finding yourself a hill and sprinting up it? Simple, effective, free. And the benefits are astounding."

While he's clearly most of the way back from his broken leg, he hasn't given any indication that he'll be ready for all that goes with a comeback bout anytime soon.

And well-informed MMA journalists like Ariel Helwani have stated they've heard the feeling among UFC brass is that it'll be well into 2023 before we see him compete again.

But footage like this will have his die-hard fanbase excited that he'll be back just as good as he was before his gnarly injury.

The man himself certainly believes that judging from a recent rambling message he posted, although he did allude to his leg still not being at 100%.

He said: "If you can’t hold your leg out straight at high kick level and maintain your balance and control here, you can’t kick to the absolute level that you can kick at.

"I cannot yet kick to the absolute level I can kick it. But I’m aware of where I need to go. Awareness is half the battle won in combat. I have the awareness that still despite all I am levels above all of those in my radar space of future fighting opponents.

"By a wide margin. Already, as is. And also that I’ve a steel bar in one of them. And it’s like a whip. And I don’t give a f**k.

"Let me tell you something: The first person I’m back fighting here is getting kicked around that cage. You are all garbage.

"You may have a little yup the yard kick in your arsenal but it’s not at the speed, the power, the length and the control that it could be!"

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